MySQL Contracts in the West Midlands

MySQL
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring MySQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MySQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 86 122
Rank change year-on-year -4 +36 -23
Contract jobs citing MySQL 7 25 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 1.28% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.32% 8.28% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 12
10th Percentile £310 £316 £376
25th Percentile £437 £350 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £358 £506
Median % change year-on-year +48.74% -29.28% +2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £456 £553
90th Percentile - £558 £606
England median daily rate £465 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -2.11% -6.86% -1.08%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

MySQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 211 302 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.69% 15.51% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 232 283
10th Percentile £295 £301 £350
25th Percentile £410 £358 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £577 £588
90th Percentile £690 £700 £698
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £15.80 - £24.13
25th Percentile £16.57 - £24.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £40.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +60.40% -
75th Percentile £19.00 - £30.48
90th Percentile - - £33.24
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

MySQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing MySQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for MySQL in the West Midlands

MySQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for MySQL in the West Midlands

MySQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MySQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MySQL in the West Midlands

MySQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MySQL in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for MySQL in the West Midlands

MySQL
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staffordshire - 3 £400 - 16
Shropshire -14 2 - - 5
Birmingham +11 1 £550 +37.50% 16
MySQL
England

MySQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) PHP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 1 (14.29%) PHP MySQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) CakePHP
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Laravel
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Management
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Database Security
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Complex ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (14.29%) Data Security
3 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Fintech
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) OCP
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
1 1 (14.29%) logstash
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) QRadar
1 1 (14.29%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco